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Festival of Data & AI Technology

May 26 / 28, 2025
In-Person Sessions and Workshops
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GoDataFest, festival of Data & AI technology 

 

in-person, May 26-28th 2025

 

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GoDataFest (May 26-28th, 2025) brings together conversations about the latest data technology into an event experience and will take place in Amsterdam, Wibautstraat 202, 1091 GS.

Engage with product specialists and experienced practitioners of leading tech. Learn from the experiences of industry-leading enterprises.

GoDataFest is proudly powered by Xebia

 

 

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May 26 / 28, 2025
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Expert sessions to celebrate data technology

GoDataFest features a multitude of sessions focused on various data & AI technologies and platforms.

From fireside chats and presentations to ask-me-anything sessions and/or workshops, each session is hosted by seasoned experts.

Covering a wide variety of innovations

You can expect insights, developments, and tutorials about the latest and greatest data technology.

Topics include modern data platforms, analytics engineering, data democratization, AI, MLOps,  pipeline orchestration, and much, much more.

Develop your hands-on skills during workshops

During the workshops you can go hands-on with tools and techniques that will make you a better data professional.

Conference Partners

Scheduled Sessions

  • 26 May
  • 27 May
  • 28 May
9:30 am - 10:00 am

Keynote: Generative AI by AWS

9:30 am Keynote: Generative AI by AWS
Host: Festival of Data & AI Technology
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10:30 am - 11:30 am

Panel Discussion: Ethics In the Age of AI: How to Build Trust in AI

10:30 am Panel Discussion: Ethics In the Age of AI: How to Build Trust in AI
Host: Festival of Data & AI Technology
Guests: Giovanni Lanzani, Chozhan D M, Ivan Shiryaev
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3:45 pm - 5:45 pm

WORKSHOP: AWS Discovery – Introduction to Prompt Engineering

Learn to create and optimize prompts for a variety of ML models with Introduction to Prompt Engineering. Learn basics of foundation models, the concepts of prompt engineering, and basic prompt techniques.
3:45 pm WORKSHOP: AWS Discovery - Introduction to Prompt Engineering
Host: Festival of Data & AI Technology
Guests: Joris Conijn
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9:30 am - 10:00 am

Keynote by Google Cloud

9:30 am Keynote By Google Cloud
Host: Festival of Data & AI Technology
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11:30 am - 12:00 pm

The GenAI automation potential of data extraction

GenAI has been around for a little while and its capabilities are expanding quickly. We are experience peak-hype levels for AI and expectations are sky-high. But still, many companies fail to generate actual value with GenAI. Why is that?
1:15 am The GenAI automation potential of data extraction
Host: Jeroen Overschie
Guests: Jeroen Overschie
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2:45 pm - 3:15 pm

Agentic AI on Google Cloud: Building Enterprise Ready Agentic Systems

Google Cloud is at the forefront of the Agentic AI revolution—enabling developers and enterprises to move beyond chatbots and toward fully autonomous, intelligent systems. In a rapidly changing domain, we’ll explore how to build, orchestrate, and scale agents that can reason, act, and interact in enterprise environments.
2:45 pm Agentic AI on Google Cloud: Building Enterprise Ready Agentic Systems
Host: Festival of Data & AI Technology
Guests: Diederik Greveling, Timothy van der Werf
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3:45 pm - 5:15 pm

WORKSHOP: The Business Impact of Data Literate Workforce

This 1,5-hour workshop is designed for people who are interested in building a data literacy academy in the organization.
3:45 pm WORKSHOP: The Business Impact of Data Literate Workforce
Host: Festival of Data & AI Technology
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9:30 am - 10:00 am

Keynote by dbt

9:30 am Keynote By dbt
Host: Festival of Data & AI Technology
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1:45 pm - 2:15 pm

Maintaining dbt project standards with dbt-bouncer

As dbt projects continue to grow in size and complexity it is becoming increasingly common for each organisation to have its own conventions, standards and ways-of-working.
1:45 am Maintaining dbt project standards with dbt-bouncer
Host: Jeroen Overschie
Guests: Pádraic Slattery
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2:45 pm - 3:15 pm

Using AI/LLMs to enhance your dbt documentation workflow

As dbt projects continue to grow in size and complexity it is becoming increasingly common for each organisation to have its own conventions, standards and ways-of-working.
2:45 pm Using AI/LLMs to enhance your dbt documentation workflow
Host: Jeroen Overschie
Guests: Bo Lemmers
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3:45 pm - 5:45 pm

WORKSHOP: Data Storytelling

This 2-hour Data Storytelling workshop is designed to help participants bridge the gap between data and decision-making by learning how to craft compelling, impactful stories with data.
3:45 pm WORKSHOP: Data Storytelling
Host: Jeroen Overschie
Guests: Lysanne van Beek
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3:45 pm - 5:45 pm

WORKSHOP: Testing in dbt – Break It ‘Til You Make It

This 2-hour workshop will walk participants through the built-in testing capabilities of dbt and go one step further by building and running custom generic tests. Participants will explore how to ensure data quality, enforce model assumptions, and debug broken tests effectively.
3:45 pm WORKSHOP: Testing in dbt - Break It 'Til You Make It
Host: Jeroen Overschie
Guests: Lucy Sheppard
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Scheduled Workshops

Meet our speakers

Each day we cover a wide variety of topics on various themes and technologies. Sessions can only be attended in-person.

Timothy van der Werf Cloud Engineer Xebia
Ivan Shiryaev Global Head of Analytics & AI Philips
Bo Lemmers Analytics Engineer Xebia
Chozhan D M Engineering Manager Zalando
Joris Conijn CTO for AWS Xebia
Giovanni Lanzani Managing Director Data & AI Xebia
Lucy Sheppard Principal Data Educator Xebia Academy
Lysanne van Beek Data Science Educator Xebia Academy
Jeroen Overschie Machine Learning Engineer Xebia
Diederik Greveling CTO Data & AI Xebia
Pádraic Slattery Analytics Engineer Xebia

Frequently Asked Questions

For whom is GoDataFest?
GoDataFest is for anyone with an interest in data technology. Be it strategic and organizational, operational and practical, or simply a general interest. Sessions are scheduled around themes, so that you can create your own custom schedule.
When and where does GoDataFest take place?
The event will take place on May 26-28th, 2025 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Is the registration free of of charge?
No, we take micropayments from attendees to increase the participation rate and reduce food waste.
Is it ok to attend more than one session?
Yes absolutely, you are more than welcome to join the event all three days.

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